>> during our shoot at kern valley, inmate george johns, serving eight years for being involved in aigh-speed chase while on parole, started a fight in the cafeteria and was hit in the head by a wooden block. we met him the following morning. >> tell me the story. tell me what happened. >> well, i had a personal problem, and i ran over to handle it, but i didn't make it. i was in the chow hall eating, and i got irritated and decided i didn't like this guy, so i'd fight him. that's it. >> next thing you remember? >> they were dragging me out, telling me i got hit in the head with a block. >> can we see your head? >> the shooting left johns with seven staples in his head and a wound still caked with dry blood. he says the scar running toward the back of his head was the result of getting run over when he was younger. >> so you knew the other guy that you got into the fight with? >> yeah, kind of, sort of. apparently i didn't like him. >> i was eating my dinner, baked potato and gravy at the table right at the corner of the chow hall, and the guy was running, and didn't see him, and he

when we ran into dillon dunn at work in kern valley's kitchen. >> how unusual are you here? this prison i'm the only one. >> the only what? >> the only white krip. >> i think the whole crew was surprised to find out he was a crip. a white guy as a crip. >> i run with the blacks. there's not too many people like me. >> at first we thought he was messing with us, or just trying to have a little fun, but we found out he was the real deal. >> so talk to me about how an irish boy ends up as a crip? >> i'm not irish. >> dylan dunn? >> my father. i'm puerto rican and italian. >> how are you perceived here? >> i get my respect. if i didn't, i -- like, they could stab me or whatever, i wouldn't be here, i'd be dead, you know. so evidently i get my respect. i mean, it wasn't easy, you know, it's still not easy, some places i go, i'm a target. >> why? >> because of who i run with, who my gang is. like i said, real racers. if blacks get into it, i got to be there. really especially -- i'm always out there on the front lines. i'm always going to be that way. >> why? >> because i pretty m

a fact dramatically illustrated during our visit to kern valley state prison in california. >> it's all we got, work, work, work, you know. >> when we met james randall, he was working his prison job helping officers serve food to his fellow inmates. when we sat down to talk in his cell, randall seemed to only have one concern. how his shaved head looked on camera. >> there's no lint on my head or nothing? >> no, you're fine. >> i'm cool. i got a gang out of it. i don't want to be shining. i'll be shining like money. >> when you interview people in prison, you know they are in there for a good reason. and when you meet them, sometimes they're very likable. they might even be somebody you think you could be friends with. but sometimes you end up hearing a jaw-dropping story. the day we met james randall, we heard a jaw-dropping story. >> originally i came to jail february 21st, 1981, convicted in san bernardino county for murder/robbery. >> given a sentence of 34 years to life, randall was 18 at the time of his conviction. but his rap sheet started much earlier. >> i have been gang bangi

at california's kern valley state prison the grooming tools are racially coded.anics and others, those are asians and pacific islanders. >> before you take it out, you have to check with the officers to make sure all the pieces in there. and after the job is done, when you turn it in, they have to check it again. let the officer check again. they don't have to worry about, you know, what's missing and what's not. >> inmate minha tor, a native of cambodia, only services the others, like fellow cambodians. >> i give haircut by inmates assigned to another flock. he cut the other's hair. we are the minority of the prison. we're the smallest group in the prison. >> now contradiction a white barber cut your hair? could a black barber cut your hair? >> no. i mean, if you're really cool with the person, yeah. but i prefer to be cut by my own people. to be safe is better, stick to our own. >> safe. and well groomed. >> how good is he as a barber? how good is mina? >> he's good because he did that as his profession on the street. so we got one real barber here in prison. c

this here is kern valley state prison operational procedure, number 222. >> and set it down in front and said, look, here's what it says. >> in a nutshell it says that every inmate will accept a cellie except if he has -- see this little thing? it's called an "s" suffix. that means single cell status. if you have that attached to your cdc number, then we'll never, ever try to house you with another inmate because you have gone through all the hoops, whatever it takes, either you committed battery on your inmate -- or cell partners or you've, you know -- >> i have to rape him, murder him or batter him. yeah, but i'm not crazy. >> or a psychiatrist says. >> yeah, but i'm not crazy. >> well, that's your answer. that's it. call the governor. that's pretty much it for me. >> hamilton was sent back to the hole. but a few days later, we heard of an alarming new development in his case. he had assaulted an officer. >> sometimes you anticipate your certain moves as far as what inmates are going do and their capability, and sometimes you are just surprised. i didn't think he was going to take

solitary confinement in the administrative segregation unit at california's kern valley state prison. it was the second time his refusal to share a cell landed him there. but his time in the hole was about to end and he was scheduled to return to general population where sharing his cell is mandatory. >> to me the cells are too small. i think it -- the cell breeds an environment for homosexuality. >> dennis hamilton was an unusual inmate. he just believed he didn't have to live with another man. i think he had a fear about living with another man. >> and to me it's like you don't want these people in society with you. you want me to feel safe inside a cell with this person. >> ironically, other inmates may not feel safe around hamilton either. he is serving a life sentence for kidnapping, carjacking, robbery, and assault with a deadly weapon. nine years in, he's only now decided to make his stand against taking a cellmate. >> there is no rule i have to take a cellie. two, i don't want to live with another man for the rest of my life. >> 127. >> the prisoners officials disagree. we fol

central california that we heard the sounds of the muslim call to prayer emanating from a cell at kern valleytate prison. jose garza and rahan bhutto explain to our crew how their religious practices aren't hindered by prison bars. >> at 5:00 we come up and do prayers and then we just begin our day like that. >> so talk to me a little why this cell looks so different from other cells we've been in. >> half islam is based on cleanness. we have to be clean so we keep ourself clean and well organized. islam is in here or street is the same. >> but bhutto and garza had more in common. >> i'm charged with murder first degree, so as far as details, life without possibility. same thing. >> i've been here for heat of passion. i caught my wife with somebody and -- >> and? >> killed her. you know, i'm not proud. i regretted every single minute of it. >> so what was the charge? what was the conviction? >> heat of passion. >> you know, he told us he took responsibility for his actions but during the course of the interview, it seemed as though he kind of left the door open a crack to say, i'm not really

phillips' cellmate was found dead saturday morning at kern valley state prison in fresno. phillips played with the 49ers in 1990 and he played with the rams and the dolphins. >>> san pablo police officer facing felony drug charges, officer kenneth white arrested for buying heroin and cocaine in san francisco while his 2- year-old daughter was in the car. police say this man, timothy french, is the one who sold white the drugs. officer white pleaded not guilty. >>> in a case that sounds a lot like the b.a.r.t. police officer who shot and killed oscar grant in oakland, tonight an oklahoma deputy says he meant to grab his stun gun, but instead he grabbed his real gun. betty yu with the chaotic confrontation that was caught on tape. >> it's a luger, a german luger. >> reporter: in the moments before eric harris was shot to death april 2nd tulsa county sheriff's deputies say they were conducting a sting operation trying to buy a gun from the convicted felon, but when police vehicles pulled up, harris ran. a body camera on one of the deputies captured the pursuit. >> stop right

his cell mate was found dead saturday morning at the kern valley state prison in fell know. he played -- fresno. he played for the 49ers in 1999. >>> a san pablo police officer faces felony drug charges. officer kenneth white was arrested wednesday for buying heroin and cocaine in san francisco while his 2-year-old daughter was in the car. police say this man timothy french sold while the drugs. officer white pleaded not guilty. >>> an oklahoma deputy now facing manslaughter charges in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man. he says he instead pulled his real gun. betty yu reports on the deadly confrontation that was caught on video. >> it's a luger. >> reporter: in the moments before eric harris was shot to death on april 2nd, tulsa county sheriff's deputies say they were conducting a sting operation, trying to buy a gun from the convicted felon. but when police vehicles pulled up, harris ran. a build camera on one of the deputies captured the pursuit. >> stop right here. stop right there. >> reporter: among the officers chasing harris, 73-year-old volunteer reserve dep

his cell mate at kern valley state prison was found dead over the weekend.phillips is serving combined sentences of 31 years after convictions for domestic abuse of his girlfriend and for driving his car into three teenagers at a park in los angeles in 2006. >>> the only drug treatment center for teenagers in alameda county is now in danger of closing. the board of directors met to talk about its fate. at one point protesters tried to break into that board meeting. >> reporter: a noisy protest, a plea for help. >> this is a precious resource for the community of oakland and indeed the bay area. >> reporter: for 28 years, nonprofit thunder road alameda county's only drug and mental health facility for teens has rehabilitated hundreds of troubled youth. >> it saved my life. >> reporter: a meth addict at 17, omar gonzalez said thunder roads residential treatment center restored his world. he's a youth counselor. >> i came back to work for two years. >> reporter: sutter health, alta base tells me, health care made them unable to return. no other agency is willin

. >>> it's monday at california's kern valley state prison.at means it's laundry day. >> a lot of guys don't trust the laundry. we do the laundry ourselves. some do it in the sink. me, i do it in the shower so i can really get it clean. soap it up, rinse it out, wring it out. get a little workout in the meantime. good as new after two hours. just like mamma taught me. >> it's also the best night for television. >> monday night, primetime tv come on and i watch the primetime shows. my favorite shows right now are "24," "smallville," "grey's anatomy," "desperate housewives." you know what i'm saying? i love you bree. >> armstrong's weekly routine will continue indefinitely. he's serving 25 years to life for first-degree murder. >> sometimes i can see the victim in my case when i'm walking, you know what i'm saying? it's like demons that never go away. i have dreams about it, you know? >> the victim was a friend who learned that armstrong was involved in drug dealing and credit card fraud. >> she was an ex-girlfriend of mine, but we still lived t

. >>> on the first day of production at california's kern valley state prison our producers set out to locked in their cells 23 hour as day. they pass reading materials and other items to each other through a process called fishing. >> go ahead. take off. >> though fishing is against prison rules, inmate, tracy washington, was willing to demonstrate how to make a fishing line. >> you get the string made out of the waistband of our boxer. we take the string apart and then we put a little piece of plastic as a weight and we slide it across the floor like this. they might come in here and take my line now that they know i've got it. but i'll make another one. >> shoot it out. >> but our producer was about to find out that there was a far more dramatic story surrounding inmate, washington. >> i was on suicide watch last week and i just came back last week. >> why? what happened? >> they was trying to send me somewhere i didn't want to be. >> so what did you do? >> i cut my wrist with a razor blade. >> washington went on to explain that he cut his wrist to prevent the prison to transferring

. >> at kern valley state prison in california, we met inmate aaron yost who participates in another illegal, yet very common practice behind bars. tattooing. >> mine's art work. you know what i mean? i did this myself. >> where? >> in a cell like this. >> how? >> how? see this cassette player? i ripped the motor out of it, and i attach a tube to it with the needle, spin the needle back and forth. and i make the ink. burn plastic or baby oil, and the soot will go up. i collect the soot and mix it with shampoo to make a thick black ink. >> tattooing in prison is illegal and poses a variety of health risks, but we've met countless inmates who have gotten their ink both on the outside and inside. many tattoos represent gang affiliation and are documented by prison officials. most of the rest have a meaning all their own. >> what my trip is is physics. my tattoos represent it. on the back of my legs it says quantum physics. i've got an atom on my hand. i study what the ultimate nature of reality is. it sooths me. it soothes me to try and figure out what i am, what all this is, what it's

. >> we met officer epperson at the kern valley state prison in california. armed only with pepper spray and a baton, he's the lone officer responsible for supervising the inmate kitchen staff. >> i have six, seven inmates back here now. i've got one sitting on the line. granted, i got four, five cops outside that door. that door's locked. there's only one dude out there with the key. you have to trust them to a certain extent. they have no reason to assault me. unless they're totally pissed off or i disrespect them. >> among the inmates epperson places his trust in is the number two cook, carter hill. >> tell me what your sentence is. >> murder. >> you're here for murder? >> yeah. >> what's your sentence? >> 51 to life. >> you know, it's interesting. sometimes there's this dynamic in prison when you're interviewing somebody, if there's a corrections officer and an inmate together, they'll pretty much watch their ps and qs. they'll tell you into the camera what the other guy wants to hear. but when we met carter hill, we got some real brutal honesty that day

. >> when we met ron golden at the california's kern valley state prison he was serving a 22-year sentencebery and assaults on correctional staff. he claimed his recent marriage to a childhood friend helped turn him around. >> before we were married i was always in a lot of fist fights and riots, whatever, in and out of the hole. >> golden's improved behavior earned him the right to a 46-hour conjugal visit with his wife in one of the prison's family cottages. but before the visit begins, both goldens must pass through security. >> you have your i.d.? >> it is in here. >> okay. >> when ron's wife hope showed up, we thought we would get shots of her being processed coming through the metal detector, opening her bag. getting shots of her. and the c.o. there going through her things. then it turned into a bit of a -- a scene. >> baby oils can't go in either. >> that wasn't on the list. >> it's not -- >> this isn't factory sealed, it can't go in. everything has to be factory sealed. this is not a sterile bottle and it's unopened -- it has alcohol in it. >> everything that is made like that has

draft pick back in the early 90's he was a start player he is accused was killing his cell mate and kern valleyn were lifeless body was found over the weekend and he is accused lawrence phillips of killing that person he played for the niner's in 1999 that was his last game he is currently serving a sentence of more than 30 years to twice convicted for joking his girlfriend in 2005 and later driving a car into three teenagers after of game in l.a.. is still unclear if yes attorney there will be issuing a statement lords' philip is accused of killing his cell mate and will continue to follow the striking story >> catherine heenan: and coming up and iconic piece of the golden gate bridge toll is back in place but something's missing will explain next and in the credit of the credible video of what happened with some roars out on the water got unexpected company that information coming up it took tennis legend serena williams, fencing champion tim morehouse and the rockettes years to master their craft. but only moments to master paying bills at chase.com. depositing checks at the atm and transfer